5.2a Creating the Storyboard

This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies.
In the Capstone Project, you will apply the academic knowledge and skills you have learnt throughout courses 1-4 to research, write and present a project proposal that addresses a complex, real-world problem related to your field of interest and/or future study. After completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Apply a range of idea generation techniques
2. Apply research strategies to search, collect, select, process, and cite information
3. Use the research process to develop and critically analyse ideas
4. Apply critical thinking skills to evaluate and analyse ideas and evidence
5. Use problem-solving skills to identify gaps in knowledge and define issues
6. Develop creative and innovative solutions to real-world problems
7. Use appropriate academic genres for written texts and multi-media presentations
8. Use written and oral skills to communicate ideas effectively for academic contexts

教学方

Katherine Olston

Luke Alexander

Academic Literacy Instructor and MOOC Learning Instructor

Lydia Dutcher

Education Manager, Graduate Programs

Jessica Blackburn

Academic Literacy Instructor and MOOC Learning Designer

脚本

[MUSIC] Now that you have a general idea of what you want your audience to see, hear, imagine, or feel, let's look at some practical tools to help you achieve it. In this lesson, I'm going to briefly introduce you to how to create a storyboard, and how and where to gather images, video, and music for your video. So, let's start with a brief introduction to creating a storyboard. A storyboard is a planning tool that makes the video creation process much smoother and much more efficient. It's kind of like an outline for a written essay, except instead of organizing your ideas around paragraphs, you are organizing them chronologically around the different kinds of media you want to use and when. This might include text, graphics, video footage, images, recorded narration, and/or music. Essentially you're figuring out what goes where, when, and why. However, as with outlines for essays, sometimes the final product varies from the plan. This is natural, and it's part of the creative process. So remember, your storyboard can and will change. The first thing you should do is sketch out your storyboard on paper. Use the template in the resources section. Each square of the storyboard should contain a sketch to represent the imagery that will be displayed, accompanied by a description of the information the image is designed to represent, and why it's important. Use your presentation structure notes to map this out on the storyboard. The beginning, middle, and end should have roughly three to six slides. And each turning point should be no more than one to two scenes. The first scene needs to contain your title. Once you've done this, you need to write a script. Check out our video on writing and recording the script for more pointers on this. You might find it useful to link your script to your storyboard and indicate exactly which sentences will match to which slides. You can also do this using presentation software. Check out the resources section for some examples. Now you need to gather the raw media that you will use in your video. In this section be careful where you gather the images, video and music from. Most of the media on the web is owned by someone. So you often can't just use whatever you find. You'll need to use public domain, or free media, or media that has been made available with creative commons licensing. Music, in particular, has very specific requirements, so be careful. You will find a number of links in the resources section to information on copyright and media that you can use. Remember to take down all information about where you got the media from and who they belong to, so you can reference them appropriately. Finally, save them to a folder so you can easily access them. If you would like to include your own videos and images, you can do that, too. Just make sure you're following the principles of academic integrity. Save this media in the folder where your other images and videos are, then add them to your storyboard, replacing any images as needed. One important thing to remember, technical knowledge is useful when creating your video, but it isn't everything. Creating a video is an iterative process. You can revisit any of the prior steps or content to source additional or different media. If it doesn't work the first way, try it, and try something else, there's no such thing as failure. You aren't being assessed on your technical brilliance and simple videos can be just as effective as complex ones. Good luck. [MUSIC]